Quotes About Acceptance

As you watch 'Documented' on CNN, I ask you, my fellow Americans: What do you want to do with me? What do you want to do with us? How do you define American?

The female body is a beautiful thing, and it should be embraced and celebrated.

It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that.

In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

I loved seeing a lead female character who isn't perfect and isn't demonized for it.

All my life I've always been so ashamed of being feminine.

My whole life I've had people telling me that I look like a man, I'm not feminine, I'm too masculine, all that stuff.

Everything that I was ridiculed for as a child - being too feminine or wearing a dress - has made my life fabulous now.

Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

I would love for everyone to be a feminist, but I have to respect people's choices. If you don't want to be a feminist and don't want to claim feminism, that's entirely your right.

I don't mind the term 'feminist.'

I read 'Fences' when I was about 30 and I thought: This is too sad.' But you get older and you start to go, 'Yeah, yeah, this is like life, why wouldn't I want to do it?'

This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come - this is why so many women, particularly women of colour, feel alienated from mainstream western academic feminism. Because don't we want it to be mainstream?

I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

I don't believe in feeling victimised. Instead, I like facing it on. Would I like to change a few things in life? Yes! But at the end of the day, mistakes are the dues you get to have a full life.

Aladdin' was one of the few things that I watched as a kid where I was like, 'Oh, that guy looks like me and has a similar culture to mine.'

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

In this job, you accept criticism and give answers on the field.

I was like a closet makeup fiend as a little girl because I knew that I would be guffawed at in school if I wore too much makeup.

I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.

I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight.